Lowest abortion total since 1974 By Dave Andrusko The Guttmacher Institute’s long-awaited new report hit the Internet this morning and the bottom line is wonderful news (unless you are Guttmacher): There were 926,200 abortions in 2014, the lowest figure of babies lost...
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New Guttmacher study shows abortion numbers hit historic low in 2014
WASHINGTON – A new report released today by the Guttmacher Institute found that in 2014, for the first time since 1975, the annual number of abortions dropped below one million. "Abortion Incidence and Service Availability in the United States, 2014” is the result of...
Another media outlet gives “One in Three” claim a “Half-True” assessment
Own research suggests the assertion is not true By Dave Andrusko My rule of thumb is when sources that are ordinary inhospitable to pro-lifers reveal pro-abortion shenanighans (even if gently), it’s important to bring it to people’s attention, even if it is plowing...
New Guttmacher Study Shows a declining Teen Birth rate and declining Teen Abortion Rate
Down to 13.5/1,000 in 2011 By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D., NRL Director of Education & Research The Guttmacher Institute, the statistical research arm of the abortion industry, has just released new data from its 2011 abortion survey with very encouraging results...
Guttmacher says 27% of all “abortion restrictions” passed in last five years
By Dave Andrusko The Guttmacher Institute is the abortion movement’s in-house think tank, which is what you would expect from the former “special affiliate” of Planned Parenthood. Last week we posted about “How a preeminent pro-abortion think-tank views 2015 (Hint:...
How a preeminent pro-abortion think-tank views 2015 (Hint: they are not happy)
By Dave Andrusko The Guttmacher Institute, the former PPFA “special affiliate,” wields enormous influence in framing how the abortion issue is covered. Pro-abortion to its institutional gills, Guttmacher occupies a special niche in that without exception, the...
Pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute warns of growing “hostility to abortion rights”
By Dave Andrusko With the Supreme Court back in session, a pivotal Texas abortion law being addressed today by an appeals court panel, and the start of the legislative session in many states already underway or near at hand, it came as zero surprise that on...
New Guttmacher Chief Doesn’t Let Facts Get in the Way of Advocacy
By Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. Editor’s note. This appeared in the May issue of National Right to Life News, which can be read in its entirety at www.nrlc.org/uploads/NRLNews/NRLNewsMay2014.pdf. The June issue comes online this Friday. NEW YORK (C-FAM)--The Guttmacher...
New Guttmacher Chief Doesn’t Let Facts Get in the Way of Advocacy
By Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. NEW YORK, May 9 (C-FAM) The Guttmacher Institute announced its new president this week: an abortion advocate who argued against transparency with health statistics, preferring to “lock all the academics in a black box” until they agree to...
An explanation of how NRLC calculated the total number of abortions since 1973 along with new factsheet on abortion statistics
By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D., NRL Director of Education & Research When we published an estimate of the number of abortions earlier this year, we noted that it was provisional, awaiting the expected publication of new abortion data from the Guttmacher...